Categorizing Cancer Risk (average, familial, hereditary)

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About This Course

The process of analyzing a family health history for patient risk assessment and management is complex. It involves multiple data points, including family history and personal history risk factors. In this course, you will analyze family histories and classify the patients' risk into average, increased (or moderate), or high risk for cancer.

Accreditation: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and The Jackson Laboratory. The University of Connecticut School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Connecticut School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of .25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Conflict of Interest Policy: All faculty members participating in CME activities sponsored by the University of Connecticut School of Medicine are required to disclose to the program audience any actual or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of their presentations. Program planners have an obligation to resolve any actual conflicts of interest and share with the audience any safeguards put in place to prevent commercial bias from influencing the content.

Neither the activity director, planning committee members, nor educational developers have a financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organizations that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation. The program does not discuss the off-labeled use of any product.
Actors are being used in this program and are presenting information that has been scripted for them. They have had no involvement with the educational content of this activity.

This CME activity is supported by educational grants from The Maine Cancer Foundation and The Jackson Laboratory Director's Innovation Fund. This CME activity has no commercial support associated with it.